FORT KENT – University of Maine at Fort Kent alumnus Melik Peter Khoury has been named permanent head of campus recruitment efforts after having served as interim director of admissions since January.

Khoury spent nearly all four years of his tenure as a student on campus in the late 1990s, assisting the university’s recruitment efforts, and returned to Fort Kent 18 months ago as a staff member in the admissions department.

Khoury, 28, was hired by UMFK in the fall of 2000 as assistant director of admissions and promoted to associate director last July. Among his many accomplishments, he led a successful admissions recruiting campaign that resulted in a 15 percent increase in the fall 2001 incoming class.

In that same census, the university also saw an overall 100 percent increase in the number of students from outside the United States and Canada.

Khoury, a native of Gambia, came to UMFK in 1995 as a first-year student enrolled in the business management program.

After leaving UMFK, Khoury spent a year at the University of Maine, working toward his master’s degree in business administration, which he received in the spring of 2001. Last fall, he returned to the Fort Kent campus.

In addition to his work in the admissions office, Khoury has served for the past two years as men’s soccer coach and as a part-time faculty member in the business division at UMFK.